Are you dedicated to nurturing and growing your local ecosystem for Climate Tech entrepreneurship? Impact Pioneers ’25 a leadership programme that welcomes you to exchange experiences with an international network of peers and gain first hand insights and experience from Sweden’s most successful Climate Tech entrepreneurship leaders and environments. The programme runs across 8 weeks, mixing weekly online sessions with a one-week onsite summit in Stockholm in October 2025.
Impact Pioneers ’25 is a leadership programme that sets out to convene leaders and enablers working in organisations and networks seeking to promote the nurture and growth of local entrepreneurship and innovation. The programme takes a starting point in the idea that entrepreneurship is a key driver of both economic and social development, as well as a force that can help accelerate the global green transition. The thematic focus of 2025 is ‘Enabling Climate Tech Entrepreneurship’, with ‘Climate Tech’ referring to technologies developed and used with the explicit purpose to help people, governments and others both address the sources and impacts of climate change.
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Participation in Impact Pioneers 25 is free of charge**.
The Swedish institute arranges and covers costs related to:
- Learning programme
- Flights to and from Sweden for the Sweden week onsite visit
- Accommodation, meals, transportation and insurance while in Sweden
**With the exception of Saudi participants who carry their own costs for flights and accommodation.
Eligibilities
The application is open to entrepreneurship ecosystem leaders and practitioners who work in organizations and networks that want to develop their support for entrepreneurs with businesses related to sustainablility and green transition. More specifially, we imagine applicants to work as:
- Startup hub/accelerator/incubation founders and managers
- Tech and innovation hub founders and managers
- University accelerator/incubator managers
- Public sector employees involved in work that supports Climate Tech entrepreneurship
In 2025, the application is open to 26 programme countries (applicants must be a citizen and resident of one of them):
AFRICA: Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Uganda, South Africa, Zambia
ASIA: Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam
EUROPE: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Estonia, Georgia**, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Sweden, Ukraine*, Türkiye
MENA: Morocco, Egypt, Saudi Arabia***
*Ukrainian applicants who reside outside of Ukraine are also eligible to apply.
**Governmental employees in Georgia are not eligible to apply.
***Participants from Saudi Arabia carry their own costs for flights and accommodation, given that Saudi Arabia is not part of Swedish development cooperation funding agreements.
Applicants must meet the following requirements:
- Be a citizen and resident of one of the 26 programme countries
- Work in an organisation or business systematically working to nurture and grow entrepreneurs.
- Have the mandate to develop new international partnerships for your organisation/business.
- Have a good working knowledge of both written and spoken English.
- Be willing to actively participate, provide support and share their experience and knowledge with other participants.
- Have identified opportunities and challenges that could be worked on during the programme to help their organisation improve its contribution to the local Climate Tech entrepreneurship ecosystem
An applicant’s home organisation/business must also meet the following requirements:
- Be locally owned and based in one of the programme countries.
- Be somehow hosting/coaching (or be in the process of starting up hosting/coaching of) entrepreneurs with business ideas that are related to sustainability and green transition.
- Run the organization/business with focus on contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals.
Application Process
The application consists of questions to assess formal requirements along with personal motivation. You will also be asked to submit a 60-120 second video and upload your most recent resume/CV.
Please carefully review the application overview (PDF) in order to be best prepared to submit your application. The overview gathers all questions and requirements in one place.
Once you have reviewed the application overview and prepared, you should submit your application through our application portal (provided by Dreamapply): LINK TO APPLICATION FORM
These are the steps you need to go through to submit your application:
- Register your profile in the application portal (DreamApply)
- Select ‘Impact Pioneers ’25:Enabling Climate Tech entrepreneurship’ as the programme you would like to apply for (open for application 25 March – 30 April (23:59 CET).
- Click on the “Apply Now!” button, and answer the questions for the different sections (found in the left-hand menu). Please review the application overview document beforehand to know what questions to expect.
- As part of the process, be ready to upload a short pre-recorded video and your most recent resume/CV as per the instructions in the portal. Please review the application overview document beforehand to ensure this will be a smooth process for you.
- After you’ve submitted your application, you’ll receive a confirmation to your inbox in the application portal (DreamApply).
Application Deadline: April 30, 2025 (19 Hours Remaining)
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